prior to joining dhs, katherine wrote extensively for breitbart. she spoke out lashing out at president bush and president obama for what she called a lax stance on terrorism. and she faces a lot of push back within dhs. she was part of this office on policy on violent extremism as part of that office, they cut a grant cut some funding that would have rehabilitated white supremacists. she s faced push back for that as well. her role has continually been questioned she is married to sebastian gorka, who has been a fierce defender of the presidentpresiden
failure, and remember that under the trump administration, the arrivals at our southern border that are unauthorized have surged. raul reyes thank you so much. my flesh pleasure. we ve learned the dhs, katherine gorka is going to be named the new press secretary. her tenure in homeland security has been controversial because of her views on combating terrorism. she s married to the former deputy assistant the to president trump who was an outspoken and combative defender of his national securities agen agenda. we have more news on this announcement. katherine will be stepping into this role as the top spokesperson, the face for customs and border protection.
been discriminated against, once they start speaking out very boldly and saying enough is enough, then they re condemned. i mean these are traits are a narcissistic abuser, if you will. but i think it s now important that we focus on 2018 and the implications there. we still have a legislative branch that has to work together in a bipartisan fashion to get things done for the american people. you would think that president trump, who was a developer, would focus on issues that impact americans, investment in infrastructure, job creation. what does he want to do? he wants to dismantle the affordable care act, thus taking away insurance coverage from tens of millions of americans. these are misplaced priorities. i m curious if you have an idea on how to combat these domestic terror groups. i know that the trump administration, dhs advisor katherine gorka has been a plan to defund life after hate, that groups that works to deradicalize neo-nazis.
this is someone who is part of the kind of cottage industry of islamophobia. there s a connection between what s happening inside and what s happening outside it seems to me. i mean, the current whether it be transition or actual appointments of the trump administration are literally every muslim s worst nightmare being manifest into an administration. gorka has called for the sanctioning of muslim org nations. she believes conspiracy theories about the muslim brotherhood infiltrating the government. this is a woman who is extremely hateful. she s written for breitbart, but she s from a think tank. people take her word for it. she s being used as a pseudo expert on islam. she s dangerous and being appointed to transition the department of homeland security. the question is security from whom? thank you for your time.
which the invocation of the name of the sitting president-elect of the united states is being deployed essentially as a kind of slur. oh, absolutely. and there have been numerous reports of this. and i think i m curious what you think. it s probably reports like this are only capturing a tiny percentage of the kinds of incidents that are happening. i m sure that there are refugees, immigrants, undocumented people who are already not reporting because they don t want to be on the radar of the federal government or law enforcement agencies. oftentimes people don t know that you can report harassment that somebody s spitting at you in the street is something you should tell law enforcement, that people should not be treating you that way or if you feel that you may be endangered that you should report these crimes. that 867 maybe triple that but we just don t know because we know that people don t always report those incidents. there s news today about a woman named katherine go